Pocket bridge-score.



H. W. BENNET.

POCKET BRIDGE SGORE.

APPLICATION FILED 0013.27, 1909.

Patented 11111114, 1911.

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PATENT OFFICE.

HAROLD W. 'BENNET, OF EVANSTOII,ILLINOIS.

rooxn'r BRIDGE-SCORE;

Specification of Letters Patent.

pplication filed October 27, 1909. Serial No. 524,789.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD W. BENNET, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and resident of Evanston, Cook county, Illinois, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in Pocket Bridge-Scores, of whichthefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bridge whist score devices, andhas for its object the production of a device by means of which thevarious elements that go to make up the bridge whist score in a formconvenient for use.

A further ob'ect is the production of a device that can be cheaplyconstructed. These and such other objects as may hereinafter appear areattained by my device, embodiments of which are illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a front view of mydevice. Fig. 2 represents a back view of my device in position onapencil. Fig. 3 represents a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2,lookin in the direction indicated by the arrows. ig. 4 re resen s across-sectional view of a modifie form of my device. Like numerals ofreference indicate like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Referring now to the drawin s: 5 re resents a cylindrical metallicbo yclose at one end 6 and slightly tapering at the other end 7, andprovlded with a central cylin-' drical bore 8. The central bore isadapted to receive a pencil 9 the point of which may be protected byturning the pencil end for end, the point being contained within thecylinder. On the outersurface'of the cylinder, and extendinglongitudinally thereof, are four lines aa spaced apart at ual distancesfrom each other and exten ing entirely about the outer periphery-of thecylinder are eleven lines b-b spaced apart at substantially equaldistances from each are combined-- other. These two sets of linescrossing each other at right angles subdivide the outer surface of thecylinder into a series of rectangular subdivisions cc in four parallelcolumns of eleven subdivisions each. Within these spaces or subdivisionsare imprinted or stamped various designating words, figures and symbolsthat go to make up a bridge Whist score, but arran ed in a new iindnovel manner, as will be fhlly set forth .ater.

It'w'ill be understood by, those familiar with the game that one of thedifficulties in arranging a convenient score is the fact that inaddition to the suit values a different set of values is given fornotrump, and the various honor values in the individual suits aregreatly in excess of those in no trump. In order to overcome theseobstacles and provide a convenient and systematic table of scores orvalues, I enter in the first eripheral series of subdivisions thefollowing four no trump values:

4 Aces 1 hand 100 4 Aces 3Aoes a0 This completes the no t-ruinp values,and leaves the balance of the subdivisions for the four suits. So in thenext or second peripheral row ofsubdivisionsI place the following: Alarge representation of a heart, a club, a diamond and a spade, andhaving within the lines of the figures the following legends: g

In the heart1 trick 8; in. the club 1 trick 4; in the diamond1 trick 6;in the spade-1 trick'2. This completes the values of the tricks.

In the nine spaces or subdivisions below the heart, I place the honorvalues that obtain when hearts are trumps, as follows:

3 Hon. '4 Hon. .rH on. 4 Hon. 5 Hon. 5 Hon- Gd. Slam Lt. Slam Chicane 1hand 1 in 7pc 1 hand 10 a2 4o 04 so 40 20 16 In the nine spaces orsubdivisions below In Fig. 4 I-haveshowna devicehavin a rectangularcross-section, in the use of whlch the trick and honor, values for eachsuit would be placed on one side,t-he no trump values stilloccupying thetop space or subdivision on each .side. I I

The device can be used forapencil holder or protector, and can alsobemade Smaller Patented Mar. 14, 1911.

and mounted as a watch charm, or carried in the pocket.

I am aware that bridge whist scores are printed on cards and the like,but the pecul- 1ar arrangement, and its adaptation to a metallic case,has roduced a new and useful article 'of manu acture.

I'claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a pocket bridge whist score consistinof a cylindrical body adapted at one en for the reception of a holdingdevice or member and having its surface marked off into panels by aseries of vertical lines and a series of intersecting peripheral lines,the top row of panels being provided with characters indicating ing oneof the four suits-an the value of tricks and honors in a no-trum play,the next circumferential series of pane s being provided each with ambol indicatwith characters indicating the value of tricks in that suit,and eachvertical row of panels below said trump suit panels beingprovided with characters indicating the value of the various honors andslams and chicane in that 25 particular suit, for the purpose set forth.

Signed by me at Chicago, Illinois, this 18th day of October, 1909.

HAROLD W. BENNET. Witnesses:

WM. B. DURNION, E. H. CLEGG.

